Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

While it's true that there's only so much anyone can say about the Oscars, remember it can be said again and again. As a reader (and writer), I know by now that there are 10 abiding Oscar stories. Here they are, all in a single article: The history The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences started as a cover-up. Hollywood was so rife with scandals (drugs, sex, murder, money — the usual suspects), its leaders knew they needed better public relations and a distraction from beautiful young people behaving badly. There was also a growing fear of unionization eating into the picture business profits. So some said, let's have an organization where, theoretically, all...

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